It seems like cancer is the biggest thing we all think of when it comes to medicine and what we’d most like to eradicate from our species. So my question is phrased this way out of curiosity what the second worst thing medicine is currently trying to eradicate.
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RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 32 pts · 166d
Dementia, Alzheimer's, Atherosclerosis.
Aging in general.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 166d
Damn, imagine if politicians found the cure to aging. That's the only thing that gets rid of them now.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 166d
Alternatively they would at least have a vested interest in not having the planet turn into a fireball.
andrewta@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 166d
Dementia and Alzheimer’s. Yeah that is a nasty way to go
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
I hope neurodevelopmental disorders would also get more attention. Although less people suffer from it than from aging-related disorders, when a child is born with a severe disease it affects not only the child's life, but also that of parents and siblings. (I don't mean neurodivergence, I mean severe disorders that prevent a child from being able to walk, communicate, and/or live in health).
In comparison with aging-disorders, so many good years of life are lost.
celeste@kbin.earth · 22 pts · 166d
dementia
medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 166d
Heart disease. Beats other death causes hands down.
Solumbran@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 166d
Cancer is only the biggest thing because it can hit anyone, including rich people.
Not because it's actually what is the biggest threat.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
The great equaliser.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 3 pts · 166d
In developed countries, it is the biggest killer by far, followed by heart disease. Do you mean to include starvation, war, and infectious diseases in underdeveloped countries?
Solumbran@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
I was thinking more about diseases in general, whether infectious, psychological, etc.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 166d
Curing the side effects of the anti-cancer pill.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 166d
Smol pp
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d
Honestly, that would probably help a lot with the state of the world.
moakley@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 166d
Aging, maybe. Once cancer's gone, why not?
myrmidex@belgae.social · 5 pts · 166d
Came here to say that. Cell rejuvenation more specifically. Telomeres and such seemed all the rage 20 years ago, haven't heard much about it since. I wonder what the newer approaches are.
moakley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
My wife used to work on that kind of research. Interesting stuff. She left that job to research cancer instead.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 166d
Hiding the pills existence.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 1 pts · 166d
Along with the moon landing hoax, the globe earth hoax, and the jet fuel melting steel beams hoax, no doubt.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/258:_Conspiracy_Theories
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/966:_Jet_Fuel
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/690:_Semicontrolled_Demolition
aviationeast@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 166d
Hair loss.
njordomir@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 165d
They would focus on monetizing that pill and wringing every last dollar out of it.
Seaguy05@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d
I bet the next thing we'd be fighting for is the ability for an average person to afford that pill. I mean ... Insurance companies aren't in the business of healing people after all. Why can't you think about the shareholders!!!
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 166d
The common cold
red_tomato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 166d
Get rid of tuberculosis once and for all. It’s still the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 166d
Cardiovascular disease
etchinghillside@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 166d
You don’t need to eradicate if you achieve super gene editing capabilities.
NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
iamericandre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
Along with all the other good answers I’ll add ALS. Really terrible disease that can accelerate quickly.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 165d
We’d be focused on making sure that all of your assets get transferred to blackrock before you could access that pill
Paragone@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 166d
Some years ago, Dr. David Williams ( whose website is now gone ), had a paper-newsletter.
A friend of his had cancer, & was in an experimental-drug-trial.
He was the ONLY survivor of that trial.
In the closeout interview, he told them he'd also been taking fenbendazole.
Oh, well they already knew about that, so his surviving wasn't surprising, then.
Dr. David Williams was LIVID.
Oncologists KNEW a way to defeat cancer, & they SAT ON IT??
The only site with information on it, nowadays, seems to be:
https://www.fenbendazole.org/
I'm a brain-decimation survivor, & have been gaslit by doctors all my life ( dad was a medical-researcher & doctor: he taught me to think, but medical-culture's narcissistic, & I went no-contact with both parents, for years-at-a-time, to protect my life from their prejudice against their inferior's having any validity )
IF I had cancer, I'd be taking that, if I could.
The industry won't EVER tolerate diminishing of its establishment, profits, or authority.
The question is falsely-based, thereby.
Sorry to be cynical about it.
Go read the book "Doctored", or the book "Money-Driven Medicine", or 1 of many many other books on the conflict-of-interest between medical-industry & what it supposedly is for.
Conflict-of-interest is THE root of corruption.
Until the reward & the goal are congruent, corruption's inescapable.
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BassTurd@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 166d
Okay, Ivermectin.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 166d
It appears it isn't complete nonsense https://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/44/9/3725